Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children will support all activities to ensure the organisation meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities with regard to children and young people.

The post holder will provide leadership and assurance across the field of safeguarding children, seeking assurances from and holding to account services regarding their safeguarding responsibilities.

This post holder will manage a safeguarding team providing expert leadership of the safeguarding children agenda for Oldham Care Organisation . The post holder will provide access to a highly expert and supportive team approach for the children and young people from, and using services in Oldham Care Organisation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide expert highly specialist advice and support across the organisation on all safeguarding matters. They will provide the ADNS for safeguarding with support in implementing the safeguarding children agenda across the Northern Care Alliance.

Assist the Alliance in meeting its statutory duties and responsibilities relating to Safeguarding children and young people. This includes providing cover, where necessary, in the absence of named nurses from other localities.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and collaborating closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we are always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.